1 I liked playing dodgeball, tossing snowballs, being a roughneck.

2 This roughneck washed and cleaned drill floor this morning.

3 A regular li'l ol' roughneck!

4 This roughneck wlung burning ashed and cleaned drill floor this morning.

5 What does a roughneck do as usual, do you know?

6 Mr. A. W is a too1pusher whom every roughneck loves.

7 This roughneck washed and cleaned drill floor this 2 morning.

8 Natural curiosity, ten years as a roughneck in the west Texas oilfields, and eleven hard science PhDs have trained him to design, build and repair a variety of deadly contraptions.

9 I was looking at an elegant young roughneck , a year or two over thirty.

10 A stream of complaints to Bloomsbury House led to the sacking of the more objectionable roughnecks.

11 What was this parchment-skinned professor with the quiet voice and the gentle manners doing among a lot of roughneck Communists and former feudal serfs?

12 A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood,[] punk.

13 Have you seen the hydraulic tongs in which every roughneck is interested?

14 We once took him for an experienced tool pusher. In reality he was a roughneck...